An Adoption Nightmare

May 14, 2008 by Alyssa

By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
May 14, 2008

Moments after their newly adopted adolescent daughters stepped off the plane from India in 1998, Desiree and David Smolin knew something was wrong.

“The agency told us the girls were eager to be adopted and eager to come to the U.S.,” Desiree Smolin told ABCNEWS.com. “But in reality, the girls were in terrible, terrible emotional shape. They were avoidant and deeply depressed; one of them was suicidal. I had never seen people so emotionally disturbed in my entire life.”

 

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